Javier Matamoros was born in Sabadell, Spain, in 1982. He received the B.S. degree and and the M.S. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 2003 and 2005 respectively. Currently, he is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication engineering at Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC).

From February 2005 until August 2005 he was with the WMC (Wireless Mobile and Communication) group of TUDelft (Delft University of Technology) doing his diploma thesis entitled "Comparison of different autocorrelation receivers for Impulse Radio Ultra Wide Band Communications"

In January 2006, he joined to the CTTC PhD fellowship programme. He is now a PhD student at the UPC's Department of Signal Theory and Communications. His primary research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks and Distributed Scheduling.